I am too old now to be active in the movement. If I were still in the movement, I am sure they would put me back in jail, because I would denounce every single injustice. A pioneer of the trade union movement and in the struggle for women’s rights in her native Panama, Marta Matamoros […]
I have no happy memories from my childhood. In 1962, when Ediofelina Fuentes González was 12 years old, she co-founded the organization United Carrizalan Women, for Panamanian peasant women from Carrizal. They raised funds with which to pay lawyers to defend people that had been imprisoned for land occupation. At age 17, she finished her […]
In the National Commission for Reconciliation, I represented all the people who had died because of the invasion of Panama by the United States. When Alma Montenegro de Fletcher was 11 years old, she taught her first pupil: her mother. She studied for a Law degree because she wanted justice for everyone. Before she accepted […]
